New York Theater Casting With Connecticut Connections

Recent Yale School of Drama grad Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Tony nominee for “Ghost”), Chris Bauer (“True Blood”), Aimee Carrero (Cartoon Network’s live-action series “Level Up”) and Seana Kofoed will be featured in the world premiere of “What Rhymes with the America,” at off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company . The new play is by Melissa James Gibson (“This,” “[sic]”).

In other off-Broadway casting of note to Connecticut audiences, Frankie R. Faison (TV’s “The Wire”), Bill Heck (who starred in Hartford Stage’s “The Orphans' Home Cycle”) and Liza Colon-Zayas join the previously announced Zabryna Guevara, Sue Jean Kim and Armando Riesco in Second Stage Theater's production of the 2012 Pulitzer winner “Water by the Spoonful” by Quiara Alegria Hudes, The play had its world premiere at Hartford Stage last fall. Davis McCallum directs. New York production beings previews Dec. 11 and opens Jan. 8.